Pmp Flashcards
Principles
Serves as the foundational guidelines for strategy, decision-making, and problem-solving
Professional standards and methodologies are often based on what?
Principles
Principles provide guidance for what?
The behavior of people involved in the projects
Adaptability
The ability to respond to changing conditions
Resiliency
The ability to absorb impacts and to recover quickly from a setback or failure
What are the three types of project development approaches?
Predictive or traditional or waterfall, agile or adaptive, hybrid
Iterative development approach
Single deliverable. Iterate using customer feedback until the final product is ready to ship.
Incremental development approach
Multiple deliverables. Product is developed in small parts called increments. Each increment is designed tested and released.
What are the 5 process groups?
Initiate, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing
How many processes and process groups are there?
5 groups and 49 processes
What are ITTOs
Inputs, tools, techniques, outputs
What is initiation?
The first process group that involves authorization of the project
What is executing?
One of the process groups that involves doing the work.
What is monitoring and controlling?
One of the process groups that involves keeping the project on track.
When can the process groups and 49 processes be applied?
At any phase in the project life cycle. Design, develop, test, deploy
Need to confirm phases of project life cycle
What do ITTOs define
Inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs are all things defining a process. There are 49 total processes, and many of these processes have the same ITTOs.
Enterprise Environmental Factors (EEF)
Think company culture. Things that impact the project but are not part of the project. These can be internal (ie corporate structure when getting approvals) or external (ie industry regulations)
Organization Process Assets (OPA)
A process input that is synonymous with templates. These are company assets such as knowledge bases, information, policies, procedures, documents to help PMs achieve objectives.
Project documents
Additional documents created throughout the 49 processes that are not part of the project management plan.
What is the number of Project management plans and project documents?
There are 18 plans and 33 documents
Project management plan
A “how to” document. Defines how the project is executed, monitored and controlled, and closed. It has 18 components, 14 plans, and 4 baselines.
After data gathering, what are the 4 methods to analyze data?
Alternative analysis (looking at different options or ways to accomplish something), root cause analysis (RCA), variance analysis (find difference between multiple things), trend analysis. Variance is like a snapshot of how far you are off both positive or negative, such as 10% behind schedule for 5% over budget. A trend is looking at those repeated results.
Phases of the data gathering process
4 phases: gathering, analyzing, presenting, decision-making
Regulation
An official guideline that must be followed by the project, usually imposed by local or national law.